19 Quotes by Steve Crocker

The Internet has become important on the world's stage.

The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people.

Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.

It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content.

Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.

Usenet is ‘the last uncensored mass medium.’

Today’s religion will be the future’s mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.

The Internet has become important on the world’s stage.

E-mail also changed things in that you don’t have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an e-mail to a list.